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Originally Posted by BBKing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...publicservices
In other words, we're exploiting them. Not the other way round, they're not sponging off the British taxpayer, they're not being given preference in flats over ordinarydecentwhiteworkingclass Britons, they're putting up with poor housing, paying British landlords for the privilege and working hard in low paid jobs.
Can we now give the petty small-minded xenophobia some bloody rest please?*
* No, in all probability. But it's worth asking.
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That'll only be possible when our shambolic government (you know the one which forecast half a dozen Polish plumbers would turn up here after the EU doors opened) comes out of its denial stage, gets to grips with reality and proves itself able to gather and collate accurate, reliable immigration and related information. Although sadly I won't be holding my breath on that one, I do have a vested interest since being married to a wonderful E. European, the last thing I want is everyone from that part of the world being labelled a scrounger.
Oh and by the way, the people who need to be convinced about all this are not Guardian reading Liberal do gooders but all those decent folk at the sharp end of things who struggle to survive and rightly or wrongly perceive they're being treated unfairly.